I smell a discusion going nowhere. What is the point of teaching a languague? Teach them to program in a paradigm (better, in all of them, and give them the tools to make educated choices about which is better for each context), and choose any language as an *example* of the paradigm.
Ah... but beyond design problems, aren't most security problems language-specific abuses and bugs? I'm thinking things like "I didn't realize it would let me mix signed and unsigned... I didn't realize it would let me right off the end of the buffer... I didn't realize I had to escape or filter certain characters...."
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